# What I Learned Today

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## Calculation of Skyrme Landau Parameters

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Calculation of Landau Parameters for Skyrme zero-range interaction and a hint to Gogny finite-range, starting from the definition of the particle-hole interaction.

Remember kids:  is not the relative momentum, but the momentum in the relative space!

Landau Parameters

## Optimizing: the Minimum Variance (or Maximum Return) Portfolio example

The aim is the optimization either by maximizing total return (or minimizing risk), in keeping with the constraints of normalization for a given risk (or return).

Thus Lagrange method is perfectly suited for the job.
For minimizing risk, respect to a desired total return , one must consider the function of total risk

and minimize the lagrangian with constrain over the desired return and sum to one of weights.

Thus, provided that the constraints have non-zero derivatives,

by the fact that  is a non--degenerate constant vector (otherwise fixing the Total Risk is given), the Lagrangian is given by

with  the vector of lagrange multipliers.

Thus the minimization (maximization) is given by finding the extremant of the Lagrangian,

That is solved by considering the following linear system, that considering a symmetric covariance matrix  is given by

where  and  in the definition of the matrix are linear vectors of equal dimension.

Finally considering the Hessian for  operator to find the convexity.

Analogously could be done for a maximum return portfolio or relaxing the attribute for the desired best compromise.